and the Saar region: other isolated works arose in the countryside, like those in Wetter in the Ruhrgebiet and Rasselstein, near Neuwied. But the German economy only really began to get moving in 1834 with [...] Customs Union. Within the space of a few decades a close-knit industrial topography sprang up in the Ruhrgebiet, dominated by pithead towers, blast furnaces and working-class housing settlements. In 1828 a Scotsman [...] to use iron ore areas like Lorraine, for example; but the region which profited the most was the Ruhrgebiet. Here the steelworks were able to produce huge amounts of wire, pipes, and construction steel -

link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these

productive heavy industries developed in the mining regions of upper Silesia, in the Saarland and the Ruhrgebiet. At the same time the building of the railways gave a decisive boost to expanding steel production

Luxemburg came from Germany. On the other hand the iron and steel produced here was sent to the Ruhrgebiet for further processing. The dependency on Germany was also clear from the fact that, at the start

Theme Routes, biographies) Lorenz Töpperwien , Cologne, Germany (Achor Points, Regional Routes "Ruhrgebiet" and "Industrial Valleys", translations English <> German) Matthias Hennies , Cologne, Germany

link landscapes and sites which have left their mark on European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these

p merged in 1999 to form ThyssenKrupp AG, which remains a powerful force in the economy of the Ruhrgebiet.

Mulvany was an Irish surveyor and entrepreneur who prospered in the Ruhrgebiet, and did much to transfer British mining technology to Germany. He was born in Dublin, brother to William Thomas Mulvaney [...] Britain into his collieries, and was particularly successful in finding new markets for coal from the Ruhrgebiet, in part by securing the improvement of transport facilities. At Gelsenkirchen he built some miners`

August Thyssen was one of the principal entrepreneurs in the iron and steel industry of the Ruhrgebiet, whose influence spread throughout Europe. He was born in the mining town of Eschweiler near Aachen [...] Thyssen sought to expand the company in other countries and by the acquisition of other firms in the Ruhrgebiet. The company began to produce pipes for gas mains, to roll sheet iron, and to operated a galvanizing

It focuses on close interactions between the two neighbouring regions. This becomes evident in the St. Anthony ironworks in Oberhausen, built in 1758, which is considered the cradle of the coal and st

Glückauf is a monument that symbolises the place of football in the working-class culture of the Ruhrgebiet. It stands in the former mining community of Gelsenkirchen, amongst houses and pubs that were once

Not for nothing were there a lot of corner bars and pubs near the factories and collieries of the Ruhrgebiet. And not for nothing was beer one of the three standard products in the region, along with coal

state-of-the-art audio-visual aids which bring back to life the rise and fall of heavy industry in the Ruhrgebiet. The Altenberg zinc factory which opened in 1854 is one of the oldest metal-processing works in

south of Herten. After a thorny start the colliery grew to become the most productive pit in the Ruhrgebiet, above all after the Second World War. For a time it boasted a workforce of over 4000 miners. Coal

Sometimes it takes time to make changes. In Hamm on the north-east edge of the Ruhrgebiet the long wait has paid off. For almost a hundred years nature ran wild on the disused site of the old Maximilian

operation in 1927. At the time similar plants were springing up like mushrooms everywhere in the Ruhrgebiet as a result of the booming steel industry whose blast furnaces consumed huge amounts of coke. Hansa [...] twelve other industrial sites. Of these Hansa represents the period in which heavy industry in the Ruhrgebiet began to integrate its powers along fully-planned lines.

platform at the top of the pithead gear. The panorama birds-eye view shows all too clearly how the Ruhrgebiet has changed in the last few decades. The German Mining Museum was set up in 1930. The underground [...] all over the world and featuring different minerals - even when the emphasis is clearly on the Ruhrgebiet. One of the notable features of the museum are the many different features, like the role of women

beauty by way of reason”. In this Osthaus’s primary concern was to improve living conditions in the Ruhrgebiet. He did everything in his power to bring outstanding artists to Hagen and combine their creative [...] of Hohenhof. It forms the core of a garden city intended to set an example to the whole of the Ruhrgebiet. It comprises three housing estates, each tailored to the meet the needs of its inhabitants; middle

picturesque setting above Lake Baldeney. The Villa Hügel was once the home of the Krupp family, a Ruhrgebiet dynasty whose members where instrumentally involved in the high and low points of modern German [...] accordance with the will of its original owner, it was transformed into a cultural centre for the Ruhrgebiet. The first artistic exhibitions presented here completely fulfilled this ambitious aim and the

crossing was the culmination of decades of efforts to create a direct canal connection between the Ruhrgebiet and Berlin. The first outlines for a navigable crossing of the Elbe go back to the year 1877. In